Thousands Of Artists Join The Pirate Bay Promotion Initiative

In January of 2012 the world’s largest torrent site, The Pirate Bay launched The Promo Bay, a promotional platform to help musicians, writers, filmmakers and artists reach a huge audience.
Many artists that featured on the site gained thousands of fans for the Facebook and Twitter accounts, others have earned a healthy income from file-sharing fans.
Giving just a few examples of the success of The Promo Bay, TPB told TorrentFreak that the artist Soso got more than 100,000 views on her music video in the 72 hours it was featured and McPixel designer Sos Sosowski featured his game which resulted in more than 3,000 purchases earning him nearly $8,000!!

Despite the fact that record labels and movie studios are persistently trying to get TPB shut down, claiming that their site leads to a massive loss of revenue, independent artists seem to disagree and since The Promo Bay’s inception, as many as 10,000 have signed up!

These days independent musicians, filmmakers and other artists have the tools and technology to produce a polished product, they just don’t always have the means to get this product seen by a large audience – which is where record labels or movie studios would come in to it. Now though, TPB is offering these artists an alternative, a way to get their product seen and heard by thousands of people and unlike the major labels – they don’t take a cut of the profits!

Offering promotional services similar to that which a major label would, TPB do not do it for the money, but to help spread content, they said: “We do this for fun and for the love of culture, so we’re everything the major labels are not.”

The site was launched by bestselling author and TPB supporter Paulo Coelho (author of The Alchemist) and after the launch many other artists had the opportunity to feature on the site’s homepage in place of the iconic pirate ship.

In fact, demand for The Promo Bay has been so high, that TPB have had to reassess the way in which they run the platform and call in outside help in the form of Australian entrepreneur Will Dayble.
TPB told TorrentFreak that they had approximately 10,000 requests in their inbox, with many of them unread, so they began thinking about other alternatives. A spokesperson said:

“Since the workload is way too high for us to cope with, we’ve asked our new-found friend Will in Australia for help. He and his friends built promobay.org, a site where all the artists will be able to submit their stuff in the future.”

Work on the new site is currently in progress and once it is up and running, the public will be given a chance to vote on what artists get featured!

“We’re hoping that once we get that to work, we’ll be able to let the audience vote for a promo each week. We’ll still have the right to veto though, so there will be no Justin Bieber on our front page.” TPB said. No Justin Bieber sounds good to me!

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